About the Authors

Donal McGlade

Affiliation School of Biomedical Science, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Carol McClenahan

Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Barbara Pierscionek

b.pierscionek@kingston.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM CM BP. Performed the experiments: DM. Analyzed the data: DM CM BP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM CM BP. Wrote the paper: DM CM BP.